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Quoting: TrainDocNot to mention the holoISO dev's transphobic comments amongst many other shit opinions. Until someone else leads that project I've no interest.

Do you have any sources on that? This is the first I've heard of it and don't want to support the project if that is the case.

The statistics part is a cruel comment about the suicide rate amongst trans people. Meant to post this with my message but I had to find my old phone in order to get this one.

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Quoting: fenglengshunAt that point just use Universal Blue's Bazzite. The devs has much clearer track records and works together with various other project. Plus, you can easily clone a repo where you can layer in your own packages and user files to pack into a custom image of your own.

Not to mention the holoISO dev's transphobic comments amongst many other shit opinions. Until someone else leads that project I've no interest.

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My thanks to Joshie for almost singlehandedly maintaining all of the shit Valve should be maintaining themselves and he's not even a full employee at Valve. He took time away from all his work on stuff related to the Steam Deck to do this.

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Quoting: CatKiller

Private games will no longer show on family sharing accounts

That's quite the whoopsie.

Yup, steam is a maze of features and I'm entirely unsurprised that nobody at Valve has an up to date map.

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It's amazing to see Valve finally address the Steam workshop as it's been a slowly decaying disaster that developers have been avoiding or implementing other solutions in it's place. Hopefully they will address the issues with the very outdated interface used for moderating the workshop and give developers better tools to moderate the workshops of their games. The current state of most workshops that don't have active moderation is quite disturbing as they are pretty much anything goes.
Here's hoping Valve addresses those issues soon.

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Holy shit they finally fixed the haptics issue on the index controllers. That issue has been so pervasive for me it prevented me from playing games like H3VR for extended periods of time (over an hour etc). I believe this was due to issues with the game sending frequent haptic events that older controllers could handle. For an example, see the vive wands which the game was originally designed around. Unfortunately these haptic events would cause significant issues with the knuckles controllers and cause the controller to just give up or even in my case to start drifting as the IMU got an increasing amount of misaligned data sent to it etc.

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Have they fixed steamvr on Linux failing to startup base stations properly? That's been my biggest problem with steamvr on Linux.

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Quoting: edoCan someone confirm if it's fun to play it like this or not? I have heard it feels too slow in this way

As someone who has played both modes, this just turns the game into a mediocre FPS. It's cool to make custom actually good FPS maps/campaigns though.

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Quoting: Kithop

Quoting: Wypmanif i play on the vanilla launcher, am i still at risk? or is this only affecting modded players

This sounds like it's specific to mods on those platforms; vanilla should be unaffected as there's no word of any sort of related compromise on the Microsoft / Mojang side.

That said, I was having issues with their authentication service last night so I'm not sure if they're aware and potentially taking things offline temporarily to audit them or not. Safest is always 'not to play at all until everyone gives the all-clear', but personally I think the risk is minimal if you're just on vanilla with the official launcher.

To clarify, a part in this malware attempts to infect any jar files it can find. If you've never downloaded Minecraft mods before you should be fine but the actual original vector cannot be determined as it could have come from anything targeting jar files. It still does seem likely this was targeting the Minecraft modding community though.

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Quoting: StoneColdSpider

Valve mentions their focus on user privacy. An interesting point here is that Valve are dropping support for Google Analytics as "Google’s tracking solutions don't align well with our approach to customer privacy" and so they're building the more useful parts directly into Steam.

Sounds good to me..... The more companies get away from the likes of Google the better.......

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but the Steam Deck UI and the new Steam desktop UI are based on CEF (Chromium Embedded Framework). The same browser basis steam used for web browsing in its previous revisions of Steam. So they've become even more dependent upon google imo.

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